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more worried about how she will cope, only left last week for his first year and now ten days on her own in a tiny room with strangers. Just been on the phone and she is in tears! Bloody hard. Not sure what to do!!!
Same situation mate, my daughter is in her final year doing Music, with everything cancelled. The industry she wants to work in has been decimated. She already lost 3 mths of her course from last year. With no support from the Uni.
 
I think it highly likely that suicides are going up, everyone is having a pretty miserable time.
In this instance I think it is right that the government try not to publicise data on it. Suicide is a pretty imitative behaviour and publicising it can generate its own momentum.
Mate I totally agree and people on here know it’s a topic close to my heart as I’ve raised money for a couple of causes after 2 people I knew both committed suicide a couple of years ago.
I’m highlighting, as are a few others, that were not getting our priorities right focusing just on the ‘pandemic’. We need to keep treating ALL illnesses and conditions not just Covid.
 
Same situation mate, my daughter is in her final year doing Music, with everything cancelled. The industry she wants to work in has been decimated. She already lost 3 mths of her course from last year. With no support from the Uni.
Girlfriend is in her final year having to work from home and the way it’s working it’s getting her really down, tutors delivering zoom meetings seem pretty shambolic to me. She quit her job 4 years ago, has amassed a huge amount of debt to follow her dream and doesn’t even know if they’ll be a job after she (if she can) complete her final year.
 
more worried about how she will cope, only left last week for his first year and now ten days on her own in a tiny room with strangers. Just been on the phone and she is in tears! Bloody hard. Not sure what to do!!!
I would just keep phoning her as and when you think she needs contact and trying to get her to focus on something positive, no matter what it is. It helps in our family.
 
Goodness, plain clothed police officers came in to the pub last night and had a major go at the gaffer. He's not made his bar staff do table service and neither was she wearing a mask. He pleaded ignorance (if you knew him then you'd understand...) but he was really pissed off afterwards. Bleating on about not being able to afford to pay more staff etc. I'm going to suggest he does a tab system for the regulars to speed up payment.

I guarantee he'll get closed down if they do a spot check again. Guarantee they do.

And yet
.....https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/row-after-london-council-is-warned-off-enforcing-mask-rules-in-shops?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
 
As an IT developer I was shocked that anyone would import data in CSV format which had 16k columns in. Any guy worth his salt would not export it that way. And if I was asked to import it is raise concerns about it.

If this is the kind of bug that's come out I bet the rest of the system is shit as well.
Ditto.
I can see using it as a temporary measure back in March/April but it should have been replaced subsequently.
But even so to use columns rather than rows is an astonishingly dreadful choice.
I suspect it is one row per day.
 
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Thanks, but I can only read 5 lines, and I'm not subcribing to any print media website I'm afraid.

Still one of the biggest pieces of advice is "wash your hands" anyway, so I'll continue to be cautious about "surfaces".
I think washing your hands is a very sensible piece of advice and would prevent many things post Covid. Let’s hope the practice is continued once it’s done with.
 
I’ve reposted what I’d intended to. The thing is, with mass unemployment and people losing homes because of this the suicides and mental health issues to follow will last a generation, kids, students also will be massively affected.
Normally you’d be going crazy about this government’s actions and a rise in suicide yet now you won’t say a fucking thing.
They’re killing people by their actions, we all know it but for some reason some just don’t want to say it.
The second one clearly says it is too small a sample to be signifcant , it is a touchy subject best backed up by actual numbers , it is too complicated a subject to understand and we will have to look back on the numbers later on
 
The second one clearly says it is too small a sample to be signifcant , it is a touchy subject best backed up by actual numbers , it is too complicated a subject to understand and we will have to look back on the numbers later on
The numbers won’t be known till later in the year, we all know people who are struggling and who’s mental health is frankly going down the pan!! How many elderly have died due to loneliness? Seriously take your head out of the sand and admit it’s having sn affect on people who aren’t positive with Covid yet we’re not interested in them anymore.
 
The maximum size of a worksheet in excel is 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns.
I believe there are 2 columns per specimen. So if you go over 8,192 specimens you can't export data beyond that number. An error is generated in a log file but I doubt it was read
There will be a number of columns before the sample data that describe the batch. Hence why the system fell over around 7800 cases or so.
I believe the spreadsheet has one row per day of sample.
 
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The numbers won’t be known till later in the year, we all know people who are struggling and who’s mental health is frankly going down the pan!! How many elderly have died due to loneliness? Seriously take your head out of the sand and admit it’s having sn affect on people who aren’t positive with Covid yet we’re not interested in them anymore.
My head isnt in the sand , my mental health is much worse even though it has been under control for years , you cant tell me anything about covid and the effects on people that i dont already know , you flung out there was a big jump in suicides when your sources dont confirm that

An infectious disease nobody is immune to has to be dealt with above everything else
 
This is the sort of table the government should be sharing. The country is split up into what’s called Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA), which is designed to improve statistical accuracy of small areas. They consist of areas containing about 7500 people and make interesting reading, which could enable people to make properly informed choices and would make very localised restrictions very possible. This one is numbers of positive infections between Sep 28 and Oct 01. Top of the table is Fallowfield Central with 558....
A popular area with students I’d imagine as are many of the areas in the top 50....Houses of multiple occupancy, halls of residence and people being ’locked indoors’. Would’ve have thought there would be a huge spike in infections in these areas? Not Hancock that’s for sure. ...

https://coviddatashare.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/MSOA_20201005.html
 
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My head isnt in the sand , my mental health is much worse even though it has been under control for years , you cant tell me anything about covid and the effects on people that i dont already know , you flung out there was a big jump in suicides when your sources dont confirm that

An infectious disease nobody is immune to has to be dealt with above everything else
No it doesn’t, not above all else at all.
The response has been disproportionate in mine and others opinions. Nothing rational has been done from the offset and thousands will die who either weren’t ill (suicides) or could have had treatments for illnesses which have been made worse by the frankly puss poor handling of this by the government and their advisors.
 
I am not , the source he gave was for 2019 and this year is too small a sample to be significant in both sources , i am sorry i can read and understand studies , the time to look at these things is later when we have the full picture
When it’s way too late for too many unfortunate bastards but we’ll get the “lessons will be learned” bollocks.
 
No it doesn’t, not above all else at all.
The response has been disproportionate in mine and others opinions. Nothing rational has been done from the offset and thousands will die who either weren’t ill (suicides) or could have had treatments for illnesses which have been made worse by the frankly puss poor handling of this by the government and their advisors.
They have made plenty of mistakes as i have said before , i am no fan but they responded to stop the nhs being overwhelmed and to stop the virus tearing through the population , their job was to stop us dying , nobody is immune so the lockdown had to happen , it is that simple , the affects have been shit , a pandemic is not supposed to be easy , all the moaning about not being able to go to the pub or football or having to wear a mask does more to over shadow the true costs of lockdown than anything else imo

You are saying thousands will die of suicide again
 
No it doesn’t, not above all else at all.
The response has been disproportionate in mine and others opinions. Nothing rational has been done from the offset and thousands will die who either weren’t ill (suicides) or could have had treatments for illnesses which have been made worse by the frankly puss poor handling of this by the government and their advisors.

The vast majority are coming round to that way of thinking as well, don't know anyone that doesn't think it has been disproportionate. I do think in March they had to do what they did, they had no option, but it's getting ridiculous now. Most countries are still relaxing their restrictions and we are making ours tougher.
 
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